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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Mack Wallace <mackbw@mapinternet.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Porting binutils to Amiga Unix
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737fewjqk.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CFEDEDC3-E90C-4048-8141-A6A709B51861@mapinternet.com> (Mack	Wallace's message of "Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:11:45 -0500")

On Feb 15 2017, Mack Wallace <mackbw@mapinternet.com> wrote:

> My understanding has been that Amiga Unix uses the elf format for
> binaries. Looking at some binaries on the system, they begin with the
> magic number 7F. Wondering if the information I require could be gleaned
> by readelf, I downloaded the earliest copy of binutils that has that. I
> was able to compile readelf and its dependencies. Looking at some
> binaries, the “Entry Point Address” is something greater than 0x80000000
> (I’ve seen addresses of 0x800000f94, 0x80000117c, 0x8000027d0). This is a
> guess, but using m68kelf.sh in emulparameters as a starting point:
> TEXT_START_ADDR=0x80000000? For both paged and non-paged?

I think you should be able to use m68kelf.sh unchanged.  It is also used
on m68k-linux, whose ELF support was based on SVr4 (with a few
peculiarities due to it's heritage which was based on the SunOS a.out
configuration).

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-16  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-16  2:11 Mack Wallace
2017-02-16  9:47 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2017-02-16  9:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-04-11  0:17   ` Mack Wallace
2017-04-11  7:55     ` Nick Clifton
2017-04-15  0:14       ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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